Kaji Tomato pins Marines Mask with an odd variant of a destroyer pin. Like a sideways destroyer pin

My Take:

This match felt very lucha, and the second team to come to the ring had a chant in their theme song that sounded exactly like the Lucha Dragons “Lucha” chant. If you want to know what “Lucharesu” is watch this match! If you’re a fan of Dragon Gate style matches, check this one out.

Bambi vs. Erina

Bambi taps out Erina with a Rings of Saturn type submission

My Take:

Sadly this reminded me more of 1980s GLOW than it did of the great AJW Joshi matches of yore. If you like hair biels, check this match out. To their credit, both ladies tried, but they just looked very green.

Yuma Aoyagi vs. Kyuu Mogami

Aoyagi pins Mogami with a cradle brainbuster.

My Take:

An ok match, nothing to write home about. Jun Kasai was supposed to be in this match, but got injured during a recent deathmatch.

Yoshinobu Kanemaru vs. Minoru Suzuki

Suzuki pins Kanemaru with the Gotch-style Pilvedriver.

Match Highlights:

Early in the match Suzuki throws Kanemaru out of the ring and wails on him with a chair and slams him into the guardrail.

Kanemaru hits a split legged moonsault.

Suzuki kicks out of a sloppy top rope DDT from Kanemaru.

My Take:

Kanemaru looked really off in this match. At least he lost. I was expecting more from this match. I wasn’t expecting as much of a brawl as this match turned out to be. After the match, Suzuki puts Kanemaru in an abdominal stretch and pours some booze down his throat.

A fun match. At one point Taichi puts on a mask he stole earlier from the year from Bushi and superkicks him. Bushi finally mists someone, and thankfully Taichi gets the octopus ink right in the face! The match really picks up after the second pinfall.

Overall Take:

A fun show with a very indy feel to it. The venue reminds me of the basement theater of a college I went to. A much better show than anything WWE has put out in recent years.